Stan in Oly, WA
Well-known Member
The other day I was getting a permit at the building department of the town where the rental house is. While I was standing at the counter, an old man came in, wheezing from climbing the stairs to the second floor office. The woman who was helping me told him she would be with him in a minute. He said that was all right, he had to sit for awhile, anyway. After he had caught his breath, he told us that this is what it was like to be almost 70. I considered offering him an alternative view, but decided there was no point.
I'm also 69, and I was there getting a permit to reroof a house which a friend and I will do next week. Before coming to the building department, I had dumped a truckload of yard waste from a 14' cedar hedge which I had removed the first 25' of in a few hours using a pole saw, a bow saw, and a small electric chain saw. I only used the chain saw when the trunks were cut low enough that I could use it with both my feet on the ground. I got the cedar stumps out by the roots by pulling them over by hand when they were about 8' high, and levering them across a concrete block. I reduced two piles of cedar debris the size of Volkswagen Beetles to two Nissan pickup truckloads using pruning sheers and a bow saw.
My point is, many, many people on this site do work like I did (and often much harder) on a regular basis, including many who are my age and older. A number of people on this site who are also somewhat disabled continue to do meaningful physical work. A lot of it just has to do with your point of view.
Stan
I'm also 69, and I was there getting a permit to reroof a house which a friend and I will do next week. Before coming to the building department, I had dumped a truckload of yard waste from a 14' cedar hedge which I had removed the first 25' of in a few hours using a pole saw, a bow saw, and a small electric chain saw. I only used the chain saw when the trunks were cut low enough that I could use it with both my feet on the ground. I got the cedar stumps out by the roots by pulling them over by hand when they were about 8' high, and levering them across a concrete block. I reduced two piles of cedar debris the size of Volkswagen Beetles to two Nissan pickup truckloads using pruning sheers and a bow saw.
My point is, many, many people on this site do work like I did (and often much harder) on a regular basis, including many who are my age and older. A number of people on this site who are also somewhat disabled continue to do meaningful physical work. A lot of it just has to do with your point of view.
Stan